I would like to take this opportunity to praise our honor roll students for the fall semester, and to congratulate parents, guardians and advocates of our honor roll students that make it possible for our such a success.

6^th grade- 23 students (52% of the class) made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of Kingston Chua and Ki’Mani Evans, both 4.0 students!

7^th grade- 13 students made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of Francis Consul,  Elinor Penelope Espinocilla, Renée Asha Petronilla Hansemann and Renz Ignacio, all 4.0 students!

8^th grade- 9 students made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of the top three students in the class, Emely Dieguez, Carlos Montejano and Nikolette Brownson!

9^th grade- 18 students made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of the top four students in the class, Brittany Carpenter, Dick Chan, Charleston Chua and Lisa Ngo.

10^th grade- 19 students made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of the top three students in the class, Quyen Tran, Jiaxian Xu and Sydney Sweeney.

11^th grade- 17 students made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of Tat Chan, Lier Guo, Dietrich Heick, Jiaqi Huang, Kevin Pong and Sanjaya Pratama, all 4.0 students!

12^th grade- 23 students (30% of the class) made the honor roll. Congratulations to the parents/guardians and advocates of the top four students, Cuiwen Ma, Brenda Falcon, Yani Yu and Hillary Wilson.

Call your student’s counselor today to discuss how we can support your child to be an ISA Success Story!!

Ms. Duszynski-Asst. Principal ]]> http://internationalstudiesacademy.org/2010/03/08/honor_roll_students_for_the_fall_semester_2009/feed/ 0 http://internationalstudiesacademy.org/2010/03/07/help_immigrant_families_particpate_in_their_childs_education/ http://internationalstudiesacademy.org/2010/03/07/help_immigrant_families_particpate_in_their_childs_education/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:47:16 +0000 MOM http://internationalstudiesacademy.org/?p=1743 Pepsi is hosting a competition and if we get the most votes the SF Public Schools Volunteer Interpreter Program will receive much-needed funding.

Vote today at http://www.refresheverything.com/volunteerinterpreters

Goals

• Train volunteer interpreters in Spanish and Cantonese
• Help Spanish/Cantonese speaking parents to communicate with schools
• Increase parent involvement in schools

Overview
The Volunteer Interpreter Program provides a key service to parents who would not otherwise be able to communicate with teachers and staff at their children’s schools due to language barriers. We will train a cohort of volunteers in interpretation methods specifically suited to school settings in order to help bridge the communication gap between Spanish and Cantonese speaking families and the school district. The school district does not have the capacity to serve the hundreds of families whose primary language is Spanish or Cantonese. The San Francisco Education Fund will receive referrals from the San Francisco Unified School District when they have requests for interpreters. We will also promote the availability of interpretation services via school, District and community-wide communications.

This is a competition for a grant that could help the SF Public Schools.

Please vote early and often (daily), just like Chicago.

Thanks,
Andy Grimstad

When: Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Where: In the Library for Dinner and Meeting

Time: 6 p.m.

Very Important! ISA Families, please be in attendance. We will discuss the Budget Cuts and the effects they will have on ISA.

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)

Middle School Parents!!! You will meet with your child’s teachers and find out what’s happening in their classrooms after meeting!

ISA Cobras 2010

The first 30 Families to come with a dish will receive a gift card!

San Francisco School Food News

Please RSVP by clicking on this evite link.

Sports Basement
1590 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA US

Sports Basement at 1590 Bryant Street (between 15th and 16th) in San Francisco, CA 94103

I.S.A. and Sports Basement invite you to an amazing shopping party!

When: Friday, March 5 – 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Where: SPORTS BASEMENT Bryant Street!

1590 Bryant Street, San Francisco (between 15th and 16th)
(415) 575-3000
www.sportsbasement.com

Who: ANYONE and EVERYONE who wants to support the International Studies Academy– snacking, shopping and socializing for a good cause!

What: It’s a Shopping Party/FUNDRAISER for the International Studies Academy! This means 10% of your purchase revenues will be donated to the I. S. A. and 10% off purchase will go to YOU! ALSO, you can buy discounted SKI TICKETS at the party, where 100% of the revenue goes to the I. S. A. Oh…Did we mention the free beer?

Sports Basement

From SFUSD Student Nutrition Services:

It’s lunchtime: Do you know where your student’s lunch money is?

Now you will. SFUSD school cafeterias are launching a prepayment program called MealpayPlus that will increase convenience for families and speed up lunch lines. Student Nutrition Services is encouraging families to prepay for students’ school meals by the month, by the week or on their own schedule.

MealpayPlus® allows families to register at www.mealpayplus.com and prepay by credit card, debit card or electronic check online or by phone. Families may also pay by check or cash at school, or may choose to send checks by mail.
MealpayPlus® will also allow families, including those who qualify for
National School Lunch Program free or reduced-price meals, to view their students’ history of purchases in the cafeterias, so parents can see what their child is eating.

Other benefits of MealpayPlus® include eliminating the need for children to carry cash to school, reducing cash losses, and helping the district meet all requirements set by the National School Lunch Program. The technology is now up and running at all SFUSD middle and high schools, and is going online at several elementary schools a week. It will be completed in all San Francisco public schools by the end of the school year. For families with children in more than one school, you will be notified by the school when the program is online.
Schools will also send out forms for cash and check prepayments.

Important Message from San Francisco USD:

Currently, MealpayPlus® is available to all Middle and High Schools (except Aptos, Gateway, Downtown, & Wells). It is also available at the following primary or K-8: Bryant, Carmichael K-5, Lawton Alternative, Paul Revere, Rosa Parks, Tenderloin, West Portal, & Willie Brown.
We expect to have all schools online by Fall 2010.

BONUS OFFER!
As an introductory offer and to offset the 4.75% payment fee, SFUSD is offering the following bonus! If you prepay for lunch using MealpayPlus®, you will receive bonus dollars credited to your account(s) as follows:

Prepayment between:
$20-$39.99 = $1.00 Bonus
$40-$59.99 = $2.00 Bonus
$60-$79.99 = $3.00 Bonus
$80-$99.99 = $4.00 Bonus
$100-$119.00 = $5.00 Bonus
$120-$139.00 = $6.00 Bonus

The bonus amount will show up automatically in your account.

The ISA Famous Principal Chat has been getting better and better. Parents are walking away with questions answered by the Principal and Admin staff, families are given their undivided attention.

Last chat we spoke on accreditation, upcoming events, and dress attire at school. Come bring us your ideas. Let’s work together to ensure that your children-our family, get the best education possible.

We truly need your presence at this meeting.

Thanks,
Latrice M. Manuel
Contact: 415-695-5866 ext.3219

A reminder, for all who can and will come out to either one of the next PTSA meetings:

Monday, February 8th from 1-3pm

Tuesday, February 9th from 6-8pm

Also please don’t forget about the Social Event we have scheduled to raise money for our NEW Video Conference Room on February 18th beginning at 9pm.

PLEASE RSVP for both events, for food will be served and we need to know how many families to provide for! Please respond with:

YES, I can make it!

or

NO, I can’t make it.

Communication for the events we have upcoming IS very important. THANKS!

Latrice Manuel
I.S.A. – Parent Liasion

Monday (Feb. 8^th)

• College Career Center Visits: I asked the 9th, 10th, and 11th grade English Teachers (Mr. Schaper, Hennessey, and Kowollik) to bring all their classes by the College and Career Center for a brief visit so we can inform them of what resources and assistance we can provide them

Tuesday (Feb. 9^th)

• Continuing College Career Center Visits
• Jobs Summer Opportunities Table @ Lunch: We will have job, summer, and internship opportunities available for students to browse through during lunch time
• Scholarship Work Shop After School: Our Scholarship Coordinator, Patty, will hold workshops to help students to start and/or finish their scholarship applications

Wednesday (Feb. 10^th)

• Inspirational Speaker Performance (Davey D): We are having an assembly during advisory to get students excited about College. This is voluntary by the advisory teacher, we will have a sign up sheet during this week’s PD meeting on Wednesday.
• CCSF Placement Exam 12:30pm: We are bringing CCSF placement test to our students at ISA. These tests are required for all students attending CCSF.
• Cash 4 College 5-7pm: A collaboration with Cash 4 College to help students and parents in filling out the FAFSA and Cal Grant. Very important workshop to get parents and students to attend.

Thursday (Feb. 11^th)

• Cal Grant (Rosa, financial aid specialist from Devry): Answer any questions students and parents might have about Cal Grant and FAFSA.
• Last day for College Career Center Visits

Friday (Feb. 12^th)

• 11^th grade workshop (College Board Account – ACT SAT sign ups): We want to start involving the juniors in the College process. The first step for them is to sign up for accounts with College Board and ACT and sign up for those tests, which is what we intend to do with this workshop.

• College Pride: Teachers, sport your most fashionable college gears (sweater, shirt, cap, etc.) to show your College Pride and motivate students to go to college.

ISA Athletic Department is looking at further supporting student academic achievement. A group of parents, student-athletes, students, coaches and staff met Jan 21 to come up with recommendations to support individual student achievement and team support. We began with our Cobra Athletic Mission Statement:

1. To teach life and sport skills

2. To Pursue Victory With Honor

3. To Create CHAMPIONS on and off the field

There were then three committees created to come up with guidelines as a matter of athletic policy to begin spring 2010.

1. All sports workshops to address our mission Examples: sportsmanship, leadership, what it means to Pursue Victory With Honor, connection of school and athletic mastery fundamentals, handling failure, communicating effectively with teachers, coaches and others, what it means to be on a team, how to dress for success (champion), athletes as role models and more

My 7th Period Advanced PE class expressed interest in training/mentoring middle school athletes on many of the above themes.

2. Recruiting student-athletes AND spirit

3. Study Hall (5 hours a week in season and 3 hours a week off season), tutoring and daily and weekly progress reports monitored by coaches with support from counselors

We meet again Thursday Feb 4 from 5-6:30 pm in Room 102 to discuss each committee work. Recommendations will then be made to the ISA Leadership Team for input, vote and finally a commitment of support.

You are all invited to our meeting this Thursday. Pizza and drinks are provided. Please contact MS/HS Athletic Director Ms. Castro if you’d like to attend. Thank you.

GO MIGHTY COBRAS!!!